Argumentation ethics is basically described by CS Lewis at the beginning of Mere Christianity, & I have wondered if he just took if from there & gave it a name, but I'm not sure how much it really matters either way. How do you think he is being intellectually dishonest?

Yeah, but it only hurts their ability to make money because they don't want to learn anything new. It could dramatically magnify their ability to make money & to solve people's problems, but most of them don't actually think in terms of creating value for others.

I joined a fbook group that is artists against Ai. That's one sad group of backwards people.

Might as well be farmers against tractors.

It's from Francisco's money speech in Atlas Shrugged.

https://www.capitalismmagazine.com/2002/08/franciscos-money-speech/

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People who attack capitalism (their own freedom), do so because they have let the propagandists & people who want control over everyone define things for them. They have allowed power hungry people to frame the problems in a way that serves their overall aims & desire for control. What is infecting everything is monetary debasement, which is the heart of all centralized forms of top down authoritarianism. It is the root of every corrupt empire. It is the cancer that destroys every great society. The best living conditions, the best art, the best innovation, & the best of all forms of creativity come from free trade & sound money (capitalism). When those things are undermined everything becomes corrupt.

“Do you wish to know whether that day is coming? Watch money. Money is the barometer of a society’s virtue. When you see that trading is done, not by consent, but by compulsion–when you see that in order to produce, you need to obtain permission from men who produce nothing–when you see that money is flowing to those who deal, not in goods, but in favors–when you see that men get richer by graft and by pull than by work, and your laws don’t protect you against them, but protect them against you–when you see corruption being rewarded and honesty becoming a self-sacrifice–you may know that your society is doomed. Money is so noble a medium that it does not compete with guns and it does not make terms with brutality. It will not permit a country to survive as half-property, half-loot."

I don't think a creator was needed, I think the structure of reality is what created everything. It doesn't even seem like we are in the same conversation. You don't seem to understand a single thing that I say. Like the fact that I use the word God (event though I have defined it multiple times) flips some irrational angry switch in your brain.

It's also weird to me that you think the random details of the bible are trustworthy, I think the details are the least trustworthy things. You think someone lived for like 300 years?

I mean, I know people who have jobs where automating or delegating parts of their job to outside help might actually make good financial sense & free up time to work on other things, or for helping the company solve other problems that might justify higher pay. Is there something particularly wrong with that?

Yeah, failure mode is not good.

Gyrocopters seem cool though.

I don't know much about the guy, but I didn't get that at all from the interview I just listened to. He talks about how to manage time & how be more productive & he wants a family & kids...? Got any examples?

Why do you dislike Ferris?

It was attributed to Strauss

I also don't really buy that it's the only way, I am just pretty certain there is a lot more to it than I originally thought.

"Unspoken expectations are premeditated resentments"

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If you have never read something out of your depth & come back to it later to discover a lot that you missed, then Idk what to tell you.

The Bible is one of the most difficult books ever, because of all of the abstractions confused by translation.

When did I say anything about Jesus coming back? The only sense in which Jesus returns is in the patterns that play out over & over, or in the sense that Satoshi came to bring heaven to earth & give us the tool needed to set incentives right. But I am kinda getting the feeling that you're autistic or something & abstract patterns are something you have a hard time with.

Well, govts & authorities tend to twist & coopt significant popular figures more often than they create them. And I mentioned the parts being added in from the religions that christianity consumed.

But if it's all completely fake & there was no Jesus at all, then who manufactured the story & to what end?

When I eat steak (usually ribeye, but sometimes strip or sirloin) I enjoy every bite right to the end, even when it's like 2lbs worth.

Veal, can't get enough of it.

When I eat lamb I am basically sick of that shit after like 5 bites.

Ground beef is similar.

Why?

#carnivore

I think it's the idea that there is some creator that created life in some way that violates all the rules of existence that really makes no sense. The wildly unlikely events that accomplish amazing things is how God appears to work in the here & now. How likely is it for some anonymous guy to create a new monetary protocol that solves all of our problems without taking any credit for it?

Highly unlikely things are at least plausibly possible, magical ressurections & people made from dirt & ribs are not possible. It's just magical thinking in an effort to wave away all the complexity of life. Make the stories real, take the magic out of them, & they become much more meanigful & they make a lot more sense.

Is it more meaningful for Superman to take a bullet for you, or for your dad? The more you deify Jesus the less meaningful the story becomes. But of course kings & normies all want him deified, because kings don't want normies to believe they can stand up to authority & change things, & normies don't want the responsibility or burden of having to stand against authorities for what is right. "Yes but he was God, who are you?" "Yes but he was God, who am I?" And obviously when we hold people up for doing great things they just naturally tend to become larger than life.

I really don't think it is, it's just hard for people to grasp because it takes such an incredibly long time, and because everything as it exists now is equally evolved & adapted to fit its environmental niche. We didn't evolve from any of the monkeys that exist today, we evolved from something that came before both monkeys & humans.

Look at how dramatically different domesticated dogs are from any sort of wild dog. Bears are basically just a big dog. Life does crazy things in response to natural forces.